Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Rips ‘Legitimate Rape’ From the Headlines

The rape caucus of the 2012 election gets its close-up tomorrow night, when Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airs its “legitimate rape” episode. Judging from the promo clip, Todd Akin’s campaign-sinking term is ripped from the headlines and pasted into a very different context: an expert witness explaining why a pregnant plaintiff could not have been raped. (Boooo.) Mariska Hargitay’s eye-roll, however, has ways of shutting that whole thing down.